Lisa recently spoke with reporters about her time on the show, her other designers and what she plans to do next, so read on to find out what she had to say!

Would you have done anything differently from the beginning of the competition to your elimination, or would you have stayed the same?"Of course I would not have stayed exactly as I did, because I was thrown off on week four! So yes, I've had eight months of hindsight and I think that there could have been a little more youthfulness in my designs, I could have made my designs a little more edgy. There's a lot. I've been thinking about it a lot for the last eight months. Absolutely, some things I could have done differently."

Do you feel like you got enough feedback from the mentors when you were designing?"I feel that I got enough from the mentors. I know that there were some comments about the yellow color with black buttons on my coat. That's a coat that I had been selling in my store extremely well and women have loved that coat, and so I went with my gut and I went with the yellow. So I don't know - should I have paid attention to them? I'm not so sure. But I definitely went with my gut on that one."

Nicole and Jessica seemed to really like your yellow coat, so were you feeling quite confident that you'd get an offer at that point?"I think I was feeling pretty confident. I adore that coat, my customers adore that coat. I felt I was putting something very strong on the runway. The fabric for the printed coat was absolutely gorgeous - it was very high end, it felt and looked very high end, and I had some design elements in that coat that were just beautiful. The yellow fabric was not my favorite shade of yellow - I had a hard time finding the right shade of yellow for that coat. But I really wanted to do a fun yellow coat, so I went for it. And yeah, I was feeling pretty good. I was pretty much blindsided."

Ronnie hasn't had a sale yet, but you had - were you frustrated that you went before him?"You know, that had not even occurred to me. What had occurred to me was that they had compared Edmond's dress to Russell Crowe in Gladiator, and they had compared my coat to Tory Burch, and so that is what resonated with me. The Ronnie thing didn't even occur to me because I feel like they see the potential in designers and whether or not they were bought, they still see the potential in someone. But when one designer is compared to Russell Crowe and one designer's not, you know, that was more of a shock."

When you left, which designers were you hoping would win the show?"Oh, interesting question! I really enjoyed working with Nzimiro. I feel that it's not so easy to make a statement in menswear, and I just really feel that he has an interesting vision with menswear. And for someone who has had no technical training in fashion, he has some really amazing ideas and he's very innovative. So I think it'll be interesting to see Nzimiro. And also of course, Ronnie is from San Francisco and that's where I'm from originally. So yeah, can't help but root for him as well!"

How hard was it to stay true to who you are when you're trying to get offers from the buyers?"Not at all hard! Because I am pretty clear on who I am as a designer. I love the late 50s, early 60s. Audrey Hepburn is an iconic figure that's always in the back of my head when I'm designing. This was no problem at all to stay true to my brand and my vision. My customers have been telling me for the last five years, 'Your clothes should be in department stores'. I'm not exactly rocking the boat with fashion but I'm offering my customers something that's very wearable and sellable and feminine, and they love that. Staying on top of the trends, maybe my designs are not particularly trendy, so maybe that's something I could have pushed a little further on the show, but I'm not into designing clothes that are trendy. I like to design clothes that are going to be in the closet for a long time that you're not going to get tired of."

What was it like knowing that your clothes were being sold in Macy's?"It was amazing. We didn't expect there was going to be this new element when the show airs of whose clothes sell out. That was just something that we hadn't considered - we just wanted to be bought by department stores. When the show aired and my dress sold out before the show even aired on the West Coast, it was tremendous. I can't even explain how exciting that was for me. It was utterly amazing. I wish I could have gone into Macy's to see my dress but unfortunately it was only in the New York location. And I tried to buy it but it was sold out! It was a little bit strange."

What effect has the exposure of the show had on your fashion line?"Definitely there's been an uptick in business in my retail shop in Seattle, and we now have a shopping cart on our website. Being on Fashion Star, it was my motivation to get a shopping cart going and we've had some sales on the shopping cart and that's been really exciting. It's something I've wanted to do for many years but I just wasn't ready to do it. I don't think it's blown the roof off the business, but there's definitely been an uptick."

Sometime you listened to the mentors' advice and changed your designs, while other times you decided to stick to your original plans. Do you think the mentors helped or hindered you?"Definitely helped, because when I changed the neckline on a dress, that's when I got bought! So I'm very happy that I changed the neckline. Maybe they would have bought it with my original boat neckline, but John Varvatos suggested I open up the neckline and I did and the dress was bought, so that was great. He was concerned about my yellow coat with black buttons and he made some sort of Paddington Bear comment, which I thought was completely strange and bizarre because I had sold that coat in my store, yellow with black buttons, and it has never appeared cartoonish or anything, and it's a great-selling coat. But I believe I did change the buttons to all yellow, because I got a little scared! Unfortunately the coat was not bought but I thought it looked really beautiful out on the runway."

What was the atmosphere like in the design studio that week? It seemed like a lot of designers were panicking about creating something high end."It's interesting, because I feel that I was kind of in my own little world worrying about my own problems and not paying attention to other people's problems and drama so much. So I can't say exactly what was happening with other designers in that regard, but for me, being 47 years old and being around in the fashion business for a little bit, I feel like when I was given that assignment it was a no-brainer that I was absolutely going to get a hand on this. It was very clear to me what they meant by high end and low end."

What's next for you?"A lot, I hope! I've just had my one store in Seattle and I'm looking to expand that. I'm looking to get back into the wholesale markets, albeit in a very small way. The last time I was in the wholesale market I think I just tried to do too much at once, and this time I would love to get back into wholesale and have a small collection of dresses. I've learned a lot about expanding my brand from the TV show and I now have martini glasses to go with my cocktail dresses, so I'm definitely interested in expanding my brand. But with the recession and the way things are going everything has to be mapped out v carefully and taken one step at a time, so that's what I'm doing."

What was the most important lesson you learned on the show?"I would say to stay true to yourself and work on the brand, work on branding, and work on expanding the brand. That's definitely helped with getting my shopping cart up and working on other elements and getting my little glassware line going and just expanding the business. But not too quickly - not too much at once!"